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A work made of oil on canvas.

Dante's Bark

After Eugène Delacroix · c. 1840–60

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Palette

Soot
 85% of the image
Black · text contrast 16.1:1
Coffee
 4% of the image
Brown · text contrast 14.0:1
Graphite
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.6:1
Walnut
 3% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.4:1
Sepia
 2% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.2:1
Raw umber
 2% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
After Eugène Delacroix
Date
c. 1840–60
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
34 × 40.2 cm (13 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.); Framed: 45.9 × 51.8 cm (18 1/16 × 20 3/8 in.)
Place
France
Period
Romanticism · 19th century
Themes
Boats and ships · Rain and storms · Cities and streets · Myths and legends
Main colour
Black · lightness 15, colourfulness 6

Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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